The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-05-03

between State AUDITOR walker anu
Ex-Supreme Judge Henry, In Jeffer-
son City, yesterday morning, an &C
count of which appeared in last even
ing's BAzoo. The following state
ment of the affair, from the BAzOo's
special correspondent, which arrived
too late for yesterday evenings pa.
per, is according to the best Obtaina-
Bile information, as correct as 1t is
possible to obtain.
THE SHOOTING.
JEFFERSON CRY, April 26.
An unfortunate difficulty has just
occurred between Auditor John Walk
er and Ex- Supreme Judge Jno W.
Henry. The facts. as detailed to
your correspondent by an eye witness,
are as follows: Walker, in going from
the supreme court building toward
the Madison hotel, met Henry, who
was coming towards the building,
near the residence of one' DIR. Church
Brooks. The parties have not spoken
for some time, and Henry, who is
quite lame and walks with a cane,
sought to pass around Walker in
silence, as is their wont when meeting.
Walker, however, intercepted Henry
and began to abuse him. Henry re-
piled that he had said nothing about
Walker that he did not believe to be
true, and he desired nothing to do
with him. Walker continued by say
ing that Henry was id contempt
ib!e liar, whereupon Henry struck him
with his cane and Walker
DREW A LARGE PISTOL
and shot Henry through the breast.
The ball first inflicted a flesh wound
along the inside of the left arm, enter
ed the left breast little above and
inside the left nipple and passed
inwards towards the right nipple.
The physicians, in attendance upon
Henry, pronounce his wound serious,
but from their present examination
not necessarily fatal. They have
probed for but cannot find the ball.
Walkers wound was slight and
amounted to nothing. He is a very
large and powerful man, while Henry
is below the medium size and is OF
quite slight build. Henry was al
most disabled at the time of the diff
Guilty on account of injuries received
by him several days ago while alight-
ing from street car in st. Louis.
At that time he slipped and fell on
one of his hips which rendered him
quite lame. 1t is thought since the
difficulty that,
WALKER ARMED HIMSELF
this morning and hunted Henry up
purposely to provoke a quarrel for
the purpose of shooting him. 1t was
generally known. in town, that Henry
was here this morning to argue the
Ilion-Higbee election case before the
Supreme court, and a few minutes
before court convened Walk
er was seen to walk
into the court room. where a number
of lawyers were congregated, look
carefully over the crowd as if seeking
for some one and walked out without
speaking to any one although he wa
nodded to by several gentlemen who
saw him enter. The ill feeling be
tween these two gentlemen grows GU
of the fact that Henry is said to hav,
expressed himself pretty freely in re
gard to the charges preferred against
Walker during the last session of tn
legislature and a report of these re-
marks having come to Walkers ears
THE GENTLEMEN HAVE NOT SPOKEN
when they passed by since. the charg'
es and Henry's remarks theretc
became public. All parties, whethe
friends of one or the other of the
gentlemen, seem surprised that mar
like Walker should carry arms. Hi
enemies, of course, claiming that b
has become desperate on account o
the damaging nature of the legisla
tive investigation had in his cas-.
last winter, and deeming it beneatl
him to notice personally, tn
two chef instruments that wer
most active in performing charge
against him, he determined to singl
Henry out on account of his promin
ence and his having expressed him
self so freely and injured him serious
ly.
Henry is known by his acquaini
ances to be a nervous, excitable man
Often imprudent in his expression
and actions, but quick to forgive a
;n;urv and not prone to harbor malic